Isometric force development, isotonic shortening, and elasticity measurements from Ca2+-activated ventricular muscle of the guinea pig
| Autor: | N R Alpert, E S Low, D W Maughan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1978 |
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Phosphocreatine
Physiology Heart Ventricles Guinea Pigs Analytical chemistry chemistry.chemical_element Isometric exercise In Vitro Techniques Calcium Creatine Guinea pig chemistry.chemical_compound Animals Magnesium Elasticity (economics) Adenosine Triphosphatases Myocardium Heart Articles Anatomy Phosphate Myocardial Contraction chemistry Muscle Tonus |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of General Physiology |
| ISSN: | 1540-7748 0022-1295 |
| DOI: | 10.1085/jgp.71.4.431 |
| Popis: | Isometric tension and isotonic shortening were measured at constant levels of calcium activation of varying magnitude in mechanically disrupted EGTA-treated ventricular bundles from guinea pigs. The results were as follows: (a) The effect of creatine phosphate (CP) on peak tension and rate of shortening saturated at a CP concentration more than 10 mM; below that level tension was increased and shortening velocity decreased. We interpreted this to mean that CP above 10 mM was sufficient to buffer MgATP(2-) intracellularly. (b) The activated bundles exhibited an exponential stress-strain relationship and the series elastic properties did not vary appreciably with degree of activation or creatine phosphate level. (c) At a muscle length 20 percent beyond just taut, peak tension increased with Ca(2+) concentration over the range slightly below 10(-6) to slightly above 10(-4)M. (d) By releasing the muscle length-active tension curves were constructed. Force declined to 20 percent peak tension with a decrease in muscle length (after the recoil) of only 11 percent at 10(-4)M Ca(2+) and 6 percent at 4x10(-6)M Ca(2+). (e) The rate of shortening after a release was greater at lower loads. At identical loads (relative to maximum force at a given Ca(2+) level), velocity at a given time after the release was less at lower Ca(2+) concentrations; at 10 M(-5), velocity was 72 percent of that at 10(-4)M, and at 4x10(-6)M, active shortening was usually delayed and was 40 percent of the velocity at 10(-4) M. Thus, under the conditions of these experiments, both velocity and peak tension depend on the level of Ca(2+) activation over a similar range of Ca(2+) concentration. |
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